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Wells Fargo and its predecessor, the Charlotte-based Wachovia Bank, violated national sanctions against Iran, Syria and Sudan when it designed a program to help a European bank process $532 ...
The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (BSA), also known as the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act, is a U.S. law requiring financial institutions in the United States to assist U.S. government agencies in detecting and preventing money laundering. [1] Specifically, the act requires financial institutions to keep records of cash purchases of ...
Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo and Company in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States, based on total assets. [3] Wachovia provided a broad range of banking, asset management, wealth management, and corporate ...
Prudential Securities traces its origins to the founding of the Leopold Cahn & Co. brokerage and investment bank in 1879. In 1891, the firm was reorganized as J.S. Bache & Co. after Jules Bache was brought into the partnership. In 1974, Bache merged with Halsey, Stuart & Co., a Chicago-based investment bank founded in 1911.
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Wachovia Admits Violations, Will Pay $160 Million Wachovia, now a subdivision of Wells Fargo (WFC), had a relationship with a Mexican "casas di ...
The following list reflects major actions that the Enforcement Division of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought in 2009–2012. The SEC is a federal agency of the United States. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and ...
Wells Fargo's sales culture and cross-selling strategy, and their impact on customers, were documented by the Wall Street Journal as early as 2011. [5] In 2013, a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed intense pressure on bank managers and individual bankers to produce sales against extremely aggressive and even mathematically impossible [7] quotas. [8]
Under the settlement, Wachovia must pay a $37 million penalty and is to be enjoined from future violations of the federal securities laws.” On November 30, 2004, the SEC announced “the filing..of charges against American International Group, Inc. (AIG) arising out of AIG’s offer and sale of an earnings management product.”